Try Manjaro - it's basically an Archlinux that do not get borked on upgrades, and with installer! Manjaro openrc edition - https://forum.manjaro.org/t/ma...
You are right, it's a mere million per phone model! Million guesses should be easily doable in couple of days, if there are no limit of queries per IP. And it might be still open -
Although the flaw has been fixed in the latest version, the majority of the users are still in danger as they have not got access to the new release yet. The CM Security Research Lab advises Truecaller users to upgrade this app to the latest version as soon as possible.
It sounds like they still allow access by IMEI only, at least for accounts that did not update client software yet.
Deviously clever, anyway 14 digits is something about 100 trillion, in scientific terms that's more that 100 million LoC (Libraries of Congress). What would be your script brute forcing speed, approximately? Because if it'll be less then about 4 LoCs per second - running this script would be a lifetime affair.
Hmm, nope, what they say is that you need correct IMEI to get access to the data - quote:
The researcher found that Truecaller uses devices’ IMEI as the only identity label of its users. Meaning that anyone gaining the IMEI of a device will be able to...
No IMEI - no honey.
I'm not saying it's perfectly OK - you could think of many possible situations when this could be used to get access to personal data. Like if some phone manufacturers assign IMEI sequentially. But in real world it's unlikely that this 'vulnerability' will ever be used for fun or profit. Anyway, it would not be terribly difficult to additionally protect this database by security token stored on the phone.
Can you? IMEI is 15 decimal digits: 14 digits plus a check digit - which makes checking them one by one possible hobby for a lifetime and beyond. Not very useful, unless you are curious second hand phone dealer, or somehow got yourself a long list of IMEI numbers.
Basically nothing gonna change - you may confirm it by observing BTC/RUR exchange offers at localbitcoins.com. Russian internet currency exchanges have operated illegally since the beginning of times. I see news like this couple of times a year - yep, bitcoin transactions continue to illegal in Russia.
Unless they magically had specific training on the Buk weapons system, their chances of even launching a missile would be slim to none.
Who do you mean by they? Ukrainians have Buk's and S300's, look here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... - evidently they a able to fire those at random targets and deny everything afterwards.
I tell you it's a coin flip, both sides had a technical means to do it, Ukrainians had motive, Russians had not. Sorry but I have zero trust for "evidence" produced by either side.
Ok, lets see the alternative - USSR refuses to occupy eastern part of Poland, so Hitler takes it all, up to the soviet border. Less territory between Germany and soviet industrial cities - worse position for USSR in 41. That was a good reason for occupation by itself. And, BTW, Poland was part of Russian Empire until it's demise in 1917 - some 22 years prior this events, just like Ukraine now.
Further, only the Russian-backed terrorists had been shooting down aircraft because only Ukraine had aircraft so the claim from the drunk Russians and terrorists that it was Ukrainian Buk which shot down the civilian airliner is, like this picture, completely false and made up out of thin air.
Or it could be that drunk Ukrainian nazis shot the plane to blame drunk Russian terrorists. Ukraine would never shot down the civil plane and lie about it? Well, they could - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . Could it be Russian military? Sure, it could be, and they would never acknowledge it. But why are you so sure, did you toss a coin? Why did traffic control sent plane through the war zone? And why do we discuss this shit on so called news for nerds? I propose this - Let's not bicker and argue about who killed who... Unless giant human-like robots (or at least filesystem creators) are involved
Yes, and do not forget - Saddam had a HUGE stockpiles of WMD hidden so well that those are still not found! And it's universally known that he preferred Christian Babies to cereals for breakfast! And Iraqi Kurds - very good point, I bet 2,000,000 is a gross underestimation, 2,000,000 killed by Saddam personally every year is more like it! I bet Kurds sing praises for US every day - they are so much safer now, after when oppressive Saddam is gone! ISIS threats their woman so much kinder.
Yes, Russia 3-rd ultimate goal is to occupy Romania! First two are Honduras (Ha! Nobody expect..) and a Falkland Islands (take that, Argentina and UK!). Right after that - Romania! Sneaky Russians seemingly not paying attention to Romania, harbouring secret hopes it will quit NATO, and then... BAM!
Slackware - no wireless? Seriously?
I recently tried a couple of modern distros, very disappointing! Linux From Scratch - awful wallpaper, Arch Linux - did not recognize my Plan9 OS partition!! It's almost like I'm expected to edit configuration files or something of the sorts, preposterous!
Quotes from "London is better for tech" enterprises:
According to a story and trivia questions in Germany, Fahrenheit actually chose the lowest air temperature measured in his hometown Danzig in winter 1708/09 as 0 F, and only later had the need to be able to make this value reproducible using brine.
The third point, 96 degrees, was approximately the human body temperature, then called "blood-heat".
So Fahrenheit vs Celsius 0-100: coldest temp at Danzig, winter 1708/09 and a "blood-heat" vs freezing water and boiling water temperatures. Are you sure the first is more intuitive?
No, lets stop it! It will kill internet as we know in the process - but what can we do, according to FA professional russian trolls already posted fake news about disaster on Columbian Chemicals plant - it's dangerous man, think of the children! Professional russian internet trolls are mystical creatures, but fighting them can take a very real forms of restricting anonymity and overall tightening control over the series of tubes.
Now we can offer a second chance to those worthless postgraduates, train them to become professional burglars in safe and controlled environment, so they'll be able to provide food for their families! We already have great killing simulators - under army umbrella - so this base is covered, now we need a good rape simulator, and maybe even go as far as a lawyer or even a politic simulator - some argue that it may be morally wrong to train a politicians, but we must understand that when a man faces inability to provide for the basic need of his loved ones - mean always justify the cause.
The Constitution Day makes me recall
The portrait of my granny, now deceased:
The portrait is still hanging on the wall,
While Grandma is long gone and badly missed.
Could be hundred percent bullshit - I had basic, 'made in Russia', night vision googles 10 to 15 years back in Moscow. Not a military grade, for sure. Also quick googling turned a company with classical name katod , based in Novosibirsk, here http://nsk.rbc.ru/nsk_topnews/... (on russian) they claim to produce consumer and military equipment, using only domestic and Chinese components.
On the other hand, FA claims that Russia lacks ability to produce critical component called microbolometer arrays, this claim sounds very plausible - USSR and then Russia never were good at producing things which include 'micro' in their names. Hence the old joke about modern Soviet microprocessor features - 6 contact pins and 2 heavy-duty handles. But hello, could they just get this 'microbolometer array' thingies from China?
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Tu-95? Don’t let its looks deceive you.
Also, there are supersonic Tu-160 - only 16 such planes in active servive tho.
I do not have an opinion on quality of Russian military hardware, but in 2007 Syria did not have S-300. News from 2013 Syria claims Russia has started delivering S300 missiles
Well said!
Try Manjaro - it's basically an Archlinux that do not get borked on upgrades, and with installer! Manjaro openrc edition - https://forum.manjaro.org/t/ma...
Although the flaw has been fixed in the latest version, the majority of the users are still in danger as they have not got access to the new release yet. The CM Security Research Lab advises Truecaller users to upgrade this app to the latest version as soon as possible.
It sounds like they still allow access by IMEI only, at least for accounts that did not update client software yet.
Deviously clever, anyway 14 digits is something about 100 trillion, in scientific terms that's more that 100 million LoC (Libraries of Congress). What would be your script brute forcing speed, approximately? Because if it'll be less then about 4 LoCs per second - running this script would be a lifetime affair.
The researcher found that Truecaller uses devices’ IMEI as the only identity label of its users. Meaning that anyone gaining the IMEI of a device will be able to...
No IMEI - no honey.
I'm not saying it's perfectly OK - you could think of many possible situations when this could be used to get access to personal data. Like if some phone manufacturers assign IMEI sequentially. But in real world it's unlikely that this 'vulnerability' will ever be used for fun or profit. Anyway, it would not be terribly difficult to additionally protect this database by security token stored on the phone.
Can you? IMEI is 15 decimal digits: 14 digits plus a check digit - which makes checking them one by one possible hobby for a lifetime and beyond. Not very useful, unless you are curious second hand phone dealer, or somehow got yourself a long list of IMEI numbers.
Basically nothing gonna change - you may confirm it by observing BTC/RUR exchange offers at localbitcoins.com. Russian internet currency exchanges have operated illegally since the beginning of times. I see news like this couple of times a year - yep, bitcoin transactions continue to illegal in Russia.
Unless they magically had specific training on the Buk weapons system, their chances of even launching a missile would be slim to none.
Who do you mean by they? Ukrainians have Buk's and S300's, look here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... - evidently they a able to fire those at random targets and deny everything afterwards.
I tell you it's a coin flip, both sides had a technical means to do it, Ukrainians had motive, Russians had not. Sorry but I have zero trust for "evidence" produced by either side.
Ok, lets see the alternative - USSR refuses to occupy eastern part of Poland, so Hitler takes it all, up to the soviet border. Less territory between Germany and soviet industrial cities - worse position for USSR in 41. That was a good reason for occupation by itself. And, BTW, Poland was part of Russian Empire until it's demise in 1917 - some 22 years prior this events, just like Ukraine now.
Further, only the Russian-backed terrorists had been shooting down aircraft because only Ukraine had aircraft so the claim from the drunk Russians and terrorists that it was Ukrainian Buk which shot down the civilian airliner is, like this picture, completely false and made up out of thin air.
Or it could be that drunk Ukrainian nazis shot the plane to blame drunk Russian terrorists. Ukraine would never shot down the civil plane and lie about it? Well, they could - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . Could it be Russian military? Sure, it could be, and they would never acknowledge it. But why are you so sure, did you toss a coin? Why did traffic control sent plane through the war zone? And why do we discuss this shit on so called news for nerds? I propose this - Let's not bicker and argue about who killed who... Unless giant human-like robots (or at least filesystem creators) are involved
Yes, and do not forget - Saddam had a HUGE stockpiles of WMD hidden so well that those are still not found! And it's universally known that he preferred Christian Babies to cereals for breakfast! And Iraqi Kurds - very good point, I bet 2,000,000 is a gross underestimation, 2,000,000 killed by Saddam personally every year is more like it! I bet Kurds sing praises for US every day - they are so much safer now, after when oppressive Saddam is gone! ISIS threats their woman so much kinder.
"Vladimir Putin was certain that ..."
Oh no!! Telepaths are real!!!11
Yes, Russia 3-rd ultimate goal is to occupy Romania! First two are Honduras (Ha! Nobody expect ..) and a Falkland Islands (take that, Argentina and UK!). Right after that - Romania! Sneaky Russians seemingly not paying attention to Romania, harbouring secret hopes it will quit NATO, and then... BAM!
Goddamn hippies!
Eric, is that you?
Your laptop model is irrelevant, but the fact that you post it instead of wifi card model tells us the real reason why your wifi does not work :)
Slackware - no wireless? Seriously?
I recently tried a couple of modern distros, very disappointing! Linux From Scratch - awful wallpaper, Arch Linux - did not recognize my Plan9 OS partition!! It's almost like I'm expected to edit configuration files or something of the sorts, preposterous!
According to a story and trivia questions in Germany, Fahrenheit actually chose the lowest air temperature measured in his hometown Danzig in winter 1708/09 as 0 F, and only later had the need to be able to make this value reproducible using brine.
The third point, 96 degrees, was approximately the human body temperature, then called "blood-heat".
So Fahrenheit vs Celsius 0-100: coldest temp at Danzig, winter 1708/09 and a "blood-heat" vs freezing water and boiling water temperatures. Are you sure the first is more intuitive?
Why? No microphone or keyboard drivers?
^mythical , that's the word.
No, lets stop it! It will kill internet as we know in the process - but what can we do, according to FA professional russian trolls already posted fake news about disaster on Columbian Chemicals plant - it's dangerous man, think of the children! Professional russian internet trolls are mystical creatures, but fighting them can take a very real forms of restricting anonymity and overall tightening control over the series of tubes.
Now we can offer a second chance to those worthless postgraduates, train them to become professional burglars in safe and controlled environment, so they'll be able to provide food for their families! We already have great killing simulators - under army umbrella - so this base is covered, now we need a good rape simulator, and maybe even go as far as a lawyer or even a politic simulator - some argue that it may be morally wrong to train a politicians, but we must understand that when a man faces inability to provide for the basic need of his loved ones - mean always justify the cause.
The Constitution Day makes me recall
The portrait of my granny, now deceased:
The portrait is still hanging on the wall,
While Grandma is long gone and badly missed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Could be hundred percent bullshit - I had basic, 'made in Russia', night vision googles 10 to 15 years back in Moscow. Not a military grade, for sure. Also quick googling turned a company with classical name katod , based in Novosibirsk, here http://nsk.rbc.ru/nsk_topnews/... (on russian) they claim to produce consumer and military equipment, using only domestic and Chinese components.
On the other hand, FA claims that Russia lacks ability to produce critical component called microbolometer arrays, this claim sounds very plausible - USSR and then Russia never were good at producing things which include 'micro' in their names. Hence the old joke about modern Soviet microprocessor features - 6 contact pins and 2 heavy-duty handles. But hello, could they just get this 'microbolometer array' thingies from China?